Talks are in-person-only, from 2–3 pm in Ricketson Auditorium
Museum admission not required to attend. Enter through Staff/Volunteer entrance, 50' east of main visitor entrance, and let Security know you're attending the talk, they will direct you to the location. Walk through Space Odyssey exhibit to the West Atrium (overlooking City Park), then take a right into Ricketson Auditorium.Jan 7th : Walking with Gastonia: new excavations of the largest ankylosaur bonebed. (Josh Lively, Prehistoric Museum)
Feb 2nd: Duration of events and cycles in Campanian age strata, Wasatch Plateau, Utah, and Book Cliffs, Colorado and Utah (Mark Kirschbaum, USGS/Colorado School of Mines)
March 5th : Ecosystems after the asteroid; new palynological discoveries at the K/Pg boundary. (Antoine Bercovici, DMNS)
May 1st : Hot to the touch! Scorching temperatures in the mid-Cretaceous Western USA. (Anne Fetrow, Colorado College)
May 20th : Recent research on the pattern of erosion and uplift around and caused by the Yellowstone hotspot (Joel Pederson, Colorado State University)
June 2nd : Museomics and the Hidden Data in Vertebrate Fossils (Caitlin Colleary, Cleveland Museum)
September 2nd: New views on archaic primate cranial anatomy: implications for early primate evolution (Jordan Crowell, DMNS)
October 6th: (Yann Rollot, DMNS)
October 28th: (Bruce Schumacher, USFS)
December TBD: Time travel to the Cretaceous: modern analogs for the Laramide Denver Basin (Robert Raynolds, DMNS)